Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An agamoid lizard of the genus Stellio or family Stellionidæ; a star-lizard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A lizard (
Stellio vulgaris ), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called alsohardim , andstar lizard .
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- noun zoology A
lizard (Stellio vulgaris), olive-green with smallstellate spots, common in the EasternMediterranean among ruins.
Etymologies
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Latin stellio a newt with starlike spots on its back, from stella a star.
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